Conexess Group · 5 hours ago
Sr. Optical Network / Software Engineer
Spring Hill, TN
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelConexess Group is a full-service staffing firm established in 2009, serving a wide range of clients from Fortune 500 to mid-small companies. They are seeking a Network Software New Product Introduction Engineer to design, develop, and deliver customer proof of concepts while supporting new product introduction activities in an Agile environment.
ConsultingInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyStaffing Agency
Responsibilities
Design and deliver customer PoCs using Our Proprietary Software including Prism® and netFLEX®
Translate customer acceptance criteria into PoC architectures, automation workflows, and demonstrations
Develop custom automation and integration solutions using Our Prism® and netFlex® software
Configure, integrate, and validate optical networks and vendor-specific management/controllers, protocols and systems including TAPI, GRPC/gNMI, SNMP, TL1, CORBA, TIRKS, OSS/BSS, NMS, EMS
Execute PoC work in two-week Agile sprints, managing priorities and meeting delivery timelines
Present PoC outcomes, results, and recommendations to customers and internal stakeholders
Support new product introduction, including documentation review/editing and internal training
Deliver technical training for support, sales, and sales engineering teams
Qualification
Required
Hands-on experience with Ciena, Nokia and legacy optical platforms (DWDM, ROADM, Coherent Optics, OTN, Sonet, TDM)
Strong software development and automation skills using Python, Ansible, Terraform
The ideal candidate will bring expertise in these (3) areas, Deep Optical Network Expertise, Strong Software Development and Automation Skills and a background in customer facing / sales engineer
Strong Cloud (GPC/AWS), Virtualization (VmWare, KVM, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Openstack) and bare metal experience
Strong Container, Kubernetes, Micro-service Architecture skills
Experience with RESTful APIs, TAPI, and new API development
Ability to deliver customer-facing PoCs aligned to acceptance criteria
Strong time management skills and experience working in Agile sprint-based environments
Preferred
Customer-facing experience in pre-sales, professional services, or advanced engineering roles
Experience in multi-vendor optical environments and interoperability
NetOps and DevOps experience in network automation or operations
MLOps experience with core ML/DL concepts, data handling, Python/frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), prompt engineering, AI ethics
AI-assisted code review Identifying security issues, detecting performance bottlenecks, enforcing coding standards, Rapid prototyping, Refactoring and optimization, Generating unit and integration tests
Company
Conexess Group
Conexess Group is an information technology company providing IT staffing and project management services.
Founded in 2009
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Austin Meibers
Partner / Owner
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